Download or read book Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 meets Jupiter written by David H. Levy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impact Jupiter written by David H. Levy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amateur astronomer and Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet co-discoverer David Levy recounts the story of the crash of the comet into the surface of Jupiter on July 16, 1994, and what the celestial impact taught scientists and the world.
Download or read book The Great Comet Crash written by John R. Spencer and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1995-09-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cosmic collision of the century, in words and photographs.
Download or read book Collision of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 with Jupiter written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. Provides an FAQ list, images of Jupiter before and after the impact, and links to related sites, compiled by Dan Bruton.
Download or read book The Collision of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 and Jupiter written by Keith S. Noll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectacular collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in July 1994 was a unique event in the history of astronomy. With a year's advance warning, astronomers and planetary scientists around the world were able to coordinate an observing campaign to track the event in unprecedented detail. A year after the event, a workshop at the Space Telescope Science Institute provided the first opportunity for them to bring together their observations and foster a new understanding of the impact. In this book, the editors present fifteen invited reviews from authors selected as international leaders in the study of the impact and its aftermath. They have edited and arranged the chapters to provide a thorough and comprehensive overview of our knowledge of the event. While our understanding of the impact will evolve with future work, this book provides a solid foundation for new insights.
Download or read book Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 and Jupiter written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after its optics were repaired, Hubble had the opportunity to observe the solar system event of the century: the collision of a string of comets with Jupiter in 1994. Examine Hubble's stunning image of the aftermath of this crash.
Download or read book Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 Encounters Jupiter written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information pertaining to the encounter of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with the planet Jupiter in July 1994, made available by the Office of Public Outreach of the Space Telescope Science Institute. Notes that this includes data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and other observatories. Includes public release images from HST and other observatories on the encounter. Links to other sites with Comet impact information.
Download or read book Selected Papers on the Collision of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 with Jupiter written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Once in a Thousand Lifetimes written by Planetary Society and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frequently Asked Questions about the Collision of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 with Jupiter written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a FAQ about the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. Includes general questions concerning Shoemaker and Levy, the effect of the collision, and TV coverage of the events. Highlights specific questions concerning whether collisions can be observed with radio telescopes, orbital parameters of the Comet, why the Comet broke apart, sizes of the fragments, and locations of images of the collision.
Download or read book Shoemaker by Levy written by David H. Levy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a lucky twist of fate when in the early1980s David Levy, a writer and amateur astronomer, joined up with the famous scientist Eugene Shoemaker and his wife, Carolyn, to search for comets from an observation post on Palomar Mountain in Southern California. Their collaboration would lead to the 1993 discovery of the most remarkable comet ever recorded, Shoemaker-Levy 9, with its several nuclei, five tails, and two sheets of debris spread out in its orbit plane. A year later, Levy would be by the Shoemakers' side again when their comet ended its four-billion-year-long journey through the solar system and collided with Jupiter in the most stunning astronomical display of the century. Not only did this collision revolutionize our understanding of the history of the solar system, but it also offered a spectacular confirmation of one scientist's life work. As a close friend and colleague of Shoemaker (who died in 1997 at the age of 69), Levy offers a uniquely insightful account of his life and the way it has shaped our thinking about the universe. Early in his training as a geologist, Shoemaker suspected that it wasn't volcanic activity but rather collisions with comets and asteroids that created most of the craters on the moon and most other bodies in the solar system. Convincing the scientific community of the plausibility of "impact theory," and revealing its power for penetrating mysteries such as the extinction of the dinosaurs and the timing of the Earth's eventual demise, became Shoemaker's mission. Through conversations with Shoemaker and his family, Levy reconstructs the journey that began with a young geologist's serious desire to go to the moon in the late1940s. Sent by the government to find a way to harvest plutonium, Shoemaker instead found evidence in desert craters for what became his impact theory. While he never became an astronaut, he did become the first geologist hired by NASA and subsequently set the research agenda for the first manned lunar landing. After a series of victories and setbacks for Shoemaker, the collision of Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter provided the most convincing proof to date of the role of impacts in our solar system. Levy's explanation of the scientific reasoning that guided Shoemaker in his career up to this dramatic point--as well as his personal portrait of a man who found white-water rafting to be an easy way to relax--sets these fascinating events in a human scale. This biography shows what Shoemaker's legacy will be for our understanding of the story of the Earth well into the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Shoemaker Levy 9 Impact on Jupiter written by Michael Francis A'Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comet Shoemaker Levy Collision with Jupiter written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of articles, press releases, and images about the Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 colliding with Jupiter, provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Notes that this is the first collision of two solar system bodies ever to be observed.
Download or read book Periodic Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 Collides with Jupiter written by Ray L. Newburn and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comet P Shoemaker Levy 9 written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 Fragment Size Estimates written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter in July, 1994, was the largest, most energetic impact event on a planet ever witnessed. Because it broke up during a close encounter with Jupiter in 1992, it was bright enough to be discovered more than a year prior to impact, allowing the scientific community an unprecedented opportunity to assess the effects such an event would have. Many excellent observations were made from Earth-based telescopes, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Galileo spacecraft en route to Jupiter. In this paper, these observations are used in conjunction with computational simulations performed with the CTH shock-physics hydrocode to determine the sizes of the fifteen fragments that made discernible impact features on the planet. To do this, CTH was equipped with a radiative ablation model and a post-processing radiative ray-trace capability that enabled light-flux predictions (often called the impact flash) for the viewing geometries of Galileo and ground-based observers. The five events recorded by Galileo were calibrated to give fragment size estimates. Compared against ground-based and HST observations, these estimates were extended using a least-squares analysis to assess the impacts of the remaining ten fragments. Some of the largest impacts (L, G and K) were greater that 1 km in diameter but the density of the fragments was low, about 0.25 g/cm3. The volume of the combined fifteen fragments would make a sphere 1.8 km in diameter. Assuming a pre-breakup density of 0.5 g/cm3, the parent body of Shoemaker-Levy 9 had a probable diameter of 1.4 km. The total kinetic energy of all the impacts was equivalent to the explosive yield of 300 Gigatons of TNT.
Download or read book Shoemaker Levy 9 Jupiter Impact WWW Center written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the Shoemaker-Levy 9/Jupiter comet from the University of Florida's Astronomy Department in Gainesville, Florida. Includes a fact file, the latest predictions for impact times, comet ephemeris for Shoemaker-Levy 9, storm predictions for radio observers, and information on observing Jupiter in the radio regime.
